Tasmanian Times
Politics
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1.2KWhy shouldn’t we raise the legal smoking age to 21 … ?
… Because the tobacco free generation (TFG) idea is better! A critique of the Tasmanian Liberal Government’s plan to raise the minimum...
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Tasmanians say: ‘Show Us Our Drinking Water Data’
The State Labor Party announced in parliament last week its opposition to TasWater’s proposed website model to publish Tasmania’s drinking water data....
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Super Trawler Senate Inquiry Hears of Diminishing Transparency
Recreational fishers and conservationists called for Senators to respond to the overwhelming public opposition to industrial scale freezer factory trawlers in Australia’s...
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Inbred, fat: Liberal MP attacks political advisers
Inbred, fat, abnormal: that’s the extraordinary connection made by a South Australian Liberal MP in his latest spray at the political class...
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April 17: Bill McKibben’s Hobart Oration. The Rogue Nation …
Tasmania recently experienced a record-breaking drought that has parched much of the state and led to the worst bushfires in memory. This...
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Launched! Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival
Wonderful launch last night … of the 2016 Stranger With My Face Horror Film Fesitval. Wonderful short, sharp films … You can...
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In Lebanon, 60 Minutes was creating a racist fiction for senior xenophobes
In the very unlikely case you’ve not yet heard of the possibly illegal and almost certainly irrational actions of an Australian TV...
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Human rights atrocity in Victorian psychiatric hospitals
*Pic: ECT … (from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) This is an Australian story. I was profoundly shocked to hear that...
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‘There is reason to celebrate the protection of our Blue Derby forests …’
Members of the community group Blue Derby Wild cautiously welcome announcements that threatened forest areas around the Flickety Sticks, Dam Busters, and...
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NATION: Why stand up for owner-operators … because we give a truck!
JLN Independent Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie after meeting with Tasmanian owner / drivers regarding the government-made Trucking Crisis has renewed her call...
